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Strakul

Strakul@wyrms.de

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Science fiction and fantasy. Astronomical Data Scientist at STScI/MAST in Baltimore. Opinions are my own. Follow me on Mastodon at mstdn.social/@VirStrakul Longer reviews on my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/

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To Read (View all 63)

Tamsyn Muir: The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (EBook, 2020, Tor.com)
Kim Stanley Robinson: New York 2140 (2017)
Christopher Paolini: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Hardcover, 2020, Tor Books)

Currently Reading

Neal Stephenson: Anathem (Hardcover, 2008, Atlantic Books)

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N. K. Jemisin: The City We Became (Hardcover, 2020, Orbit)
Stephen Briggs: Terry Pratchett's Guards! guards! (1996, Corgi Books)
Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth (Paperback, 2019, Tor.com)

2025 Reading Goal

8% complete! Strakul has read 1 of 12 books.

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reviewed Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson: Wind and Truth (2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 5 stars

Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future …

Journey Before Destination

5 stars

This is the ending of the first arc of The Stormlight Archive and it is quite an impressive book. It's very long, and the plot does suffer a bit in the middle parts, but the setting and characters are well established so I felt drawn to it all the way. Overall, it was a great book and a fitting conclusion to this arc. I really want to know what happens next, but suspect it may be several years before we return to Roshar.

For a full review, check out my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/2024/12/book-review-wind-and-truth-by-brandon.html

reviewed Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

Brandon Sanderson: Dawnshard (Hardcover, 2021, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 5 stars

From Brandon Sanderson―author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth …

An interesting seafaring adventure in Roshar

5 stars

I've been re-reading The Stormlight Archive to prepare for the upcoming novel and had missed this one. It's quite fun and very intriguing on what it reveals, both for Roshar and the Cosmere.

For a longer review, check out my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/2024/10/book-review-dawnshard-by-brandon.html